The process to remake the city's Rose Quarter District inched forward today with a memorandum spelling out how the process will work.

The Portland City Council unanimously endorsed the agreement between the city, the Portland Development Commission and Portland Arena Management, which owns the Rose Garden Arena and operates Memorial Coliseum.

More than $5 million in urban renewal dollars has been budgeted for the makeover, with an additional $25 million available.

And next week, Mayor Sam Adams will announce the members of his Rose Quarter stakeholders' committee. More than 120 people have applied for 20 slots.

The group's first meeting is scheduled for Sept. 8. Anyone can submit ideas for the district, a part of which draws professional basketball and hockey fans on game nights, but otherwise often sits lonely and unused. The committee will vet ideas starting this fall, forward its recommendations to the City Council in the spring, and firm development plans worked out by next fall.

At the meeting, Larry Miller, president of the Trail Blazers, pitched a vision of a unique entertainment district that would honor the city's African Americans, green living, war veterans and Nike -- which just may be interested in building a museum there. Miller is calling the area "Jumptown" for now.

Adams promised Doug Piper, president of the Portland Winterhawks, which leases space from the Blazers, that no person or group will have a leg up when it comes to submitting ideas.